On an ordinary day in the middle of an ordinary city in an ordinary world, James Richards is kidnapped! When next he wakes up he finds himself in another world, one completely different from his Earth. Stuck in this new world called Arollay and somehow imbued with one of the two powers that the people of this land all have, James Richards must learn to live a new life-without any technology to speak of and none of the luxuries he is used to.Arollay is split into two countries, each with its own unique powers, and split by war between the northern country of Gattar and the Southern country of Intaru. James' new powers are identified as those of Gattar's and he has landed smack dab in the heart of Intaru and must now escape to the safety of the northern country.Now he must learn to cope with his outlandish powers while on the run from Intaru's Elite fighting force, the deadly Shai'lun-shadow creatures never before seen in Arollay-and the mysterious person that brought him to Arollay in the first place.

THE AROLLAY CHRONICLES: The Journey

Science Fiction & Fantasy

GAVIN,JAMES

Fantasy

iUniverse

The wild ride of the most romanticized icon in jazz is thrillingly recounted in this first major biography. From his emergence in the 1950s—when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of “cool” jazz—until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Now, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter’s dark journey. The story of Baker’s demise—a heretofore unsolved riddle—is revealed here at last. So is the truth behind his tormented childhood, the pain of which haunted his entire life. Gavin explores the birth of the melancholy trumpet playing, the fragile tenor voice, and the otherworldly personal aura that catapulted Baker to fame. Sexy, angelic, needy, and forbidding all at once, Baker became known as the James Dean of jazz. Like Dean, he struck a note of menace in the staid fifties: behind his ultracool, handsome façade lay something ominous, unspoken. The mystery drove both sexes crazy. But his only real romance, apart from music, was with drugs. And in mesmerizing detail, Gavin narrates the harrowing spiral of dependency down which Baker tumbled, dragging with him those who dared get close. From his golden promise to his eventual destruction, Baker’s life mirrored America’s fall from postwar innocence. Deep in a Dream is the portrait of a musician whose singular artistry and mystique have never lost their power to enchant and seduce us.

Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

Humor & Entertainment

KNOPF

Exercise and Sport Psychology

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Human Kinetics

Lifestyle fitness coaching is an emerging field in the health and fitness industry. Centered on an ongoing and guided process of dialogue, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching offers a systematic approach to help fitness professionals understand their clients' needs, interests, and personal orientations and use the information to direct clients toward achieving their health and personal goals.
Lifestyle Fitness Coaching contains detailed information on coaching dialogues between the health fitness professional and the client, addressing issues such as the types of questions to ask, how to provide feedback effectively, and how to make referrals. The text includes useful information for guiding program development and learning activities that help readers understand the material and relate it to their situations. In addition, an accompanying CD-ROM contains a Matching Activities and Personal Styles (MAPS) Inventory, a validated questionnaire that clients complete to identify their likes and dislikes. The MAPS Inventory software then generates a report that coaches and clients can use to guide the coaching process.
Lifestyle Fitness Coaching presents the necessary skills for professional development and offers a methodology for gathering and analyzing personal information about clients that enables coaches to engage in dialogue about the means and ends of clients' sport and fitness programming. With this text, professionals can do the following: -Learn the building blocks of information and skills for developing a career as a lifestyle fitness coach
-Appreciate the skills and coaching processes necessary for communicating with clients
-Engage clients in an ongoing process of dialogue informed by comprehensive fitness-related data concerning clients' needs, interests, and background
-Reinforce their understanding and practice their application of the skills presented
-Help clients develop profiles of personal style and related exercise options This text teaches health fitness professionals how to step into the arena of lifestyle fitness coaching to motivate, guide, inform, and support their clients' personal change processes. The book delineates the bounds of care and advice that coaches should give and helps coaches aid clients in strategizing, planning, and implementing self-change and personal improvement programs. Issues are explored including the coaching relationship; goals, boundaries, and ethics in coaching; coaching stages and processes; and coaching skills. The book also examines assessments, applications, and opportunities and directions in lifestyle fitness coaching.
As such, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching is an invaluable resource for health fitness professionals who want to expand their skills and move toward more enriching and rewarding interactions with their clients.

Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

At long last, the first serious biography of entertainment legend Lena Horne -- the celebrated star of film, stage, and music who became one of the first African-American icons. At the 74th annual Academy Awards in 2002, Halle Berry thanked Lena Horne for paving the way for her to become the first black recipient of a Best Actress Oscar. Though limited, mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals, "the beautiful Lena Horne," as she was often called, became a pioneering star for African Americans in the 1940s and fifties. Now James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, draws on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews -- one of them with Horne herself -- to give us the defining portrait of an American icon. 
 Gavin has gotten closer than any other writer to the celebrity who has lived in reclusion since 1998. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Laurents, and several of Horne's fellow chorines from Harlem's Cotton Club, Stormy Weather offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne -- a stunning talent who inspired such giants of showbiz as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin, but whose frustrations with racism, and with tumultuous, root-less childhood, left wounds too deep to heal. The woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous. 
 From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography.

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

Atria Books

THE “DEFINITIVE” (VANITY FAIR ) BIOGRAPHY OF LEGEND LENA HORNE—THE CELEBRATED STAR OF STAGE, MUSIC, AND FILM WHO BLAZED A TRAIL FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND Drawing on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews— one of them with Lena Horne herself—critically acclaimed author James Gavin gives us a “deftly researched” (The Boston Globe) and authoritative portrait of the American icon. Horne broke down racial barriers in the entertainment industry in the 1940s and ’50s even as she was limited mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, and Bobby Short, Stormy Weather reveals the many faces of this luminous, complex, strong-willed, passionate, even tragic woman—a stunning talent who inspired such giants as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin.

Atria

• Fully revised updated and expanded edition of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner that sold more than 10,000 copies • Cultural history plus celebrity anecdotes • Up-to-the-minute look at the current New York cabaret scene Intimate Nights is the definitive history of cabaret as it evolved in New York City in the years after World War II. But that doesn’t mean it's dry and academic. Good heavens, no! Settle in for racy tales of nightlife, revealed in interviews with dozens of the people who lived it: Bobby Short, Eartha Kitt, Mabel Mercer, Bette Midler, and many more. Author James Gavin has tracked down rare, early stories about the legends who came out of New York nightclubs—and that means Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Nichols and May, Johnny Mathis, Carol Burnett, Lenny Bruce, among others. Part cultural history, part celebrity gossip, Intimate Nights offers an intimate look at the creatures of the nightclubs.

Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

Back Stage Books

Help your clients achieve their full potential while keeping yourself in top psychological shape with Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals. This book examines the importance of SPIRIT - Support, Purpose, Integrity, Resolution, Inspiration, and Timing - in your professional relationships. Using the SPIRIT model, Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals helps you interact more effectively with your clients by explaining how to open lines of supportive communication, determine your clients' purposes and goals, maintain integrity by establishing personal and professional boundaries, reach mutually satisfying resolutions to conflict, create inspiration in your work, and discover the secrets of timing. This book is essential reading for personal trainers, exercise leaders, body workers, health promotion specialists, and recreation specialists. Clinical sport and exercise psychologists will also find it a valuable reference.

Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals

Gavin, Nettie

Psychology & Counseling

Limelight Editions

This book helps readers to pick an exercise programme that fits their personality and lifestyle, and to identify motives that will help them develop a lifelong commitment to exercise. Author James Gavin aims to help readers understand how exercise can help them achieve many of their life's goals, including managing weight, improving self-esteem, and gaining control over social relationships. They'll also find powerful insights into why past attempts at exercise haven't worked - and how to avoid the same pitfalls again.

The Exercise Habit

Leisure Pr

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THE AROLLAY CHRONICLES: The Journey

Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker

Exercise and Sport Psychology

Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne

Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

Psychology for Health Fitness Professionals

Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

The Exercise Habit